Music Lessons : Seven Composers and What They Taught Me

From the bestselling author of the award-winning�How Shostakovich Changed My Mind�comes a new book about the cathartic power of music. For critic and composer Stephen Johnson, there have been moments when music has confronted him with life-changing insights. Some of these have been hard to accept, but once accepted they have opened up new possibilities of thinking, feeling and living. Through an exploration of seven pieces - by�Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff,�Johann Sebastian Bach,�Lili Boulanger, Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius and�Ludwig van Beethoven - Johnson considers the lives and the intentions of the composers who created�them, and how they have affected him personally.